Ternary operator, begin/end

[SilverWarior]

I'm a hobby programer myself. Maybe if all goes well I will become full-time programer in the future. But till then I still have to learn a bit.

[JernejL]

Those overloaded iff functions are not so unreadable at all.

I think they are great (especially for string concatenation), especially since with later delphi and fpc you can inline them, and not suffer any (correct me) performance penalty for calling a function (stack allocations, etc..)

[Ñuño Martínez]

It depends on what you do with the parameters. I mean, the next code:

  TheVariable := IFF (Something, TheVariable + 15, TheVariable * 2);

generates the same executable than:

  Tmp1 := TheVariable + 15;
  Tmp2 := TheVariable * 2;
  TheVariable := IFF (Something, Tmp1, Tmp2);

May be the compiler can optimize it but I doubt FPC or Delphi are so smart even with -O4. In that case C's "?:" would generate faster code.